Hacker News: mjmas

New comment by mjmas in "US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution"

mjmas — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 22:57:24 +0000

Here in Queensland the state owns the regional electricity company, Ergon. ∴ most of what they do that doesn't generate money (such as doing free electricity rather than charging for it) is taxpayer-funded.

New comment by mjmas in "US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution"

mjmas — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 22:43:39 +0000

Becaude, as we all know, taxpayer-funded == free.

And we banned nuclear, since it's scary.

New comment by mjmas in "So I have a weatherman, which also tells me the news"

mjmas — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 21:41:50 +0000

Also calculating the dew point should be a more stable measure of the air's water content over different temperatures. The first picture works out to a dew point of 23 degrees, assuming 82% humidity is accurate.

https://media.bom.gov.au/social/blog/1324/feeling-hot-and-bo...

New comment by mjmas in "A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos"

mjmas — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 05:28:17 +0000

Interesting to note their monorepo is already up to issue / PR 1,186,742. And so assuming 10 years old it would average out to around 450 PRs/issues each workday.

New comment by mjmas in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

mjmas — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:35:52 +0000

What about the being inside of the womb?

New comment by mjmas in "Vintage Scientific Papers with LaTeX"

mjmas — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:35:57 +0000

The illustrations use https://github.com/jemmybutton/fiziko to get pretty line rendering.

MetaPost library for black and white illustrations

mjmas — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:39:49 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jemmybutton/fiziko

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49680709

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mjmas in "Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?"

mjmas — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:54:51 +0000

We can't necessarily survive that well when under acceleration greater than 9.81 metres per second per second for extended periods of time.

New comment by mjmas in "“I just chose words carefully”"

mjmas — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:55:09 +0000

  Including the making of the posts
  into nice rectangular portions of
  each thirty three characters wide ?

  Not including the double space at
  the beginning of each line or any
  of the punctuation character ends .

New comment by mjmas in "Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root"

mjmas — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:26:16 +0000

The attacker could use `chattr -i .bashrc` with the same privileges before editing your bashrc. A better way would probably be to use `sudo chown 0:0 .bashrc`.

Also you will want to do the same to .profile (because of LD_PRELOAD etc). And also do the same to any directories in your $PATH (~/.local/bin etc)

New comment by mjmas in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

mjmas — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:05:20 +0000

Example pings from here in Australia (FTTP)

  PING news.ycombinator.com (209.216.230.207): 56 data bytes
  ...
  --- news.ycombinator.com ping statistics ---
  40 packets transmitted, 40 packets received, 0% packet loss
  round-trip min/avg/max = 154.980/155.832/156.990 ms

FTTP except via WiFi:

  round-trip min/avg/max = 164.218/164.860/165.764 ms

Or through the mobile network:

  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 201.881/245.543/350.600/48.713 ms

New comment by mjmas in "Felony Bench"

mjmas — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 08:47:19 +0000

> AISI

Looks like the new use is more popular than American Iron and Steel Institute.

New comment by mjmas in "Bun 1.4"

mjmas — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:48:56 +0000

This blog post / changelog is extremely long. Around 50 metres long on mobile.

New comment by mjmas in "Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers"

mjmas — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:07:11 +0000

The options are actually labelled as 'Proxied' or 'DNS Only', so that is actually quite clear.

New comment by mjmas in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"

mjmas — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:34:25 +0000

> No handles.

The ones in the article do have handles, but they are on the sides and so almost not visible.

New comment by mjmas in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"

mjmas — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:47:13 +0000

> green milk crates

Looks like https://makerworld.com/en/models/1515018-110x110mm-square-st...

New comment by mjmas in "Twenty Years of Pandoc"

mjmas — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:27:03 +0000

  pandoc document.md --to native

New comment by mjmas in "A big win for Android interoperability"

mjmas — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:28:53 +0000

> offer NFC payments via their app

NAB here in Australia did previously as well, but then they stopped doing that in 2022.

https://www.zdnet.com/finance/banking/nab-waves-goodbye-to-n...

New comment by mjmas in "Show HN: Port Zero – How I learned to stop worrying and love PORT=0"

mjmas — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:15:32 +0000

Why not have your program just listen on port 80 on an address under 127.0.0.0/8?

You will need to run

  sysctl net.ipv4.ip_unprivileged_port_start=80

before you start, but after that you have 2 ** 24 addresses to choose from. And the browser will be happy to treat it as a secure page as well as do proper cookie isolation.

New comment by mjmas in "DMARC has been public since 2012 but most company domains still don't enforce it"

mjmas — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:40:12 +0000

> $0.001 cent

https://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know...